I bet guys would put their phone number as the tip if it didn’t cost millions of dollars. Guest Post by Mark Haley If it weren’t for a small Miller High Life sign outside of the front door, I wouldn’t have known I was walking into the right building. As it was, I walked into…
Then there is a moment of clarity that illuminates what you must do. It is not time to write a poem. Not time to take in the nighttime scenery breezing by the drive from San Salvador to El Tunco. It is not time to think back over the past week and pinpoint where misguided thoughts…
Guest post by tour companion and friend, Tom Hoy I am hungry and tired. I have been hungry and tired for the better part of the last two weeks. When you’re on the road these states of being are constants. Food and sleep always come, but never regularly, and almost never to your total satisfaction.…
For three days my brain had been having an ongoing rap battle with my heart. I turned twenty-nine on the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua. It was an opportune day for a birthday. I was in need of encouraging vibes and what better than a birthday to imbibe such energy? No one in the entire…
When I checked into El Zopilote hostel in Ometepe, Nicaragua the conversation went like this: Front desk lady: You will need to give us your passport. Me: No, I need to keep it. Front desk lady: It is our policy that we take your passport. Me: It is my policy that I keep it.…
In rural Iowa Julianne Mason said something I never expected to hear from her. She said, “Luke, I need you and Hek to dig a grave for Tom so that we can burn him in it.” Granted, she was filming a music video, and Tom was still alive enough afterwards to play our first…
See animals, and watch as lions stalk your vehicleAuto Safari Chapin is an animal park located on the CA-2 highway, near Escuintla, Guatemala. It opened in 1980 and recreates an African safari experience. Their mission is to preserve local fauna and educate the population about the importance of conservation. The park currently contains 96 species…
“A guy like you needs a beard then, to protect yourself from the cold,” he said, and in that moment we became best friends. A Day in Granada Nicaragua “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us” was written like a lonely commandment above my bed at The Backyard Hostel…
Vote for your favorite Ray Conway Meme! Men, do we grow beards to travel or do we travel to grow beards? Women, is a man without a beard truly a man? They say a man with a beard never sleeps alone. If this is true, then photographer Ray Conway never wakes up alone. Due to…
Traveling With Children: The Diaper Diaries You hear it often enough, biguns encouraging littluns: “Travel while you’re still young! Travel before you get locked into marriage and out of the world. Travel before you are a slave to a mortgage. Traveling with children is like traveling with an alcoholic and incontinent puppy, so travel before you…
